Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charm and assurance who got on a silver platter the early prominence that Nixon had to claw for, who wandered away from a Republican Administration rather than be frustrated by it, who eschewed the easy life for elective politics and then turned into a blintz-eating back-slapping vote catcher...
...CATCHER IN THE RYE, J.D. Salinger...
...Early-Catcher. Few weddings, royal or common, have been so closely scrutinized. Television networks devoted many a primetime hour to ogling the preliminaries and the gala reception at which 500 guests supped on lobster bar-quettes,* crabmeat bouchees, quiche lorraine and country ham with biscuits-to the accompaniment of California champagne. In a wedding-eve interview, Bridegroom Robb's brother David, 22, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, raised TV watchers' eyebrows by remarking that what Chuck wanted most out of life was money, and that the young Marine social aide used to sell his bubble...
...game. And if the loss of the good old spitter wasn't enough, the owners also decided to dispense with most of those endearing little rituals that give the game color. In the interest of speeding things up, no longer may a pitcher stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher...
...ball bounced in front of Maris, who gunned it home. Scott said under the high throw which the catcher dropped. Then suddenly a second later and 20 feet behind scott. Smith came flying in just missing...